What is the place of prayer in your life?

I had planned on sipping coffee and enjoying some lovely home baking at the Evangelism Committee meeting well into the evening, but it seems that our esteemed council liaison is not feeling well, so we had to postpone!  So if you read this – Get well Mr. V. 🙂

I had also not planned on blogging tonight, but here I sit, meditating on the Lord’s Prayer. What is the place of prayer in your life?  It is vitally important to your walk with Christ.  We hear the Lord’s prayer often, possibly every day at the dinner table, some of us have it on posted on the wall.  I have a white and blue tile with it on the wall in our kitchen (I hear that hanging tiles and plates is a Dutch thing to do…) I must say that I fear that may I have taken the Lord’s Prayer for granted.  Have you read this prayer, I mean really read it?  Have you meditated on it?  I suggest you do, it will enrich you! This is what Jesus taught us to say to our our Father and Prayer is the essence of our relationship with God.  Since it’s late I will say good night and post one of my favorite quotes from Dr. M. Lloyd-Jones:

What is the place of prayer in your life? What prominence does it have in our lives? It is a question that I address to all. It is as necessary that it should reach the man who is well versed in the Scripture, and who has knowledge of its doctrine and its theology, as that it should reach anyone else. What part does prayer play in our lives and how essential is it to us? Do we realize that without it we faint?

Our ultimate position as Christians is tested by the character of our prayer life. It is more important than knowledge and understanding. Do not imagine that I am detracting from the importance of knowledge. I spend most of my life trying to show the importance of having a knowledge of truth and an understanding of it. That is vitally important. There is only one thing that is more important, and that is prayer. The ultimate test of my understanding of the Scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him, but to know Him. The whole object of salvation is to bring me to a knowledge of God. I may talk learnedly about regeneration, but what is eternal life? It is that they might know Thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ whom God has sent. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere. It is meant to do that. The value of the knowledge is that it gives me such an understanding of the value of prayer, that I devote time to prayer and delight in prayer. If it does not product these results in my life, there is something wrong and spurious about it, or else I am handling it in a wrong manner.